Weird Currency: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Elves (at least in Cormanthyr) used yulthaari - "coins" (actually IOU notes / contract proposals) shaped as 5 inches long platinum tubes, with smooth outside surface and inside covered in tactile script. These were commonly used in auctions or among the nobility. TheThis advantagedesign isensures that this[[Silent Offer|it's impossible to read anything from the outside]] even with eagle's eyes, thus allows to avoid both boastful use of wealth (which would be crass) and embarrassment (if you lose the bid), specifically because it's impossible to read anything from the outside even with eagle's eyes. A third party will only see that one elf passed a yulthaari to the other, who stuck a finger in it and accepted or rejected - how much was offered and even for which goods the first was bidding is up to the rumours.